The current business conditions are experiencing major challenges with the occurrence of globalization. This is further complicated by VUCA due to COVID-19 pandemic that occurred in last 2 years. Business initially focused only on globalization, now must focus more determining right strategy face competition while surviving pandemic. research was conducted at PT. X, who managed survive conditio...

The evolution of the global telecommunications industry into an open services market presents developers of telecommunication service and management systems with many new challenges. Increased competition, complex service provision chains and integrated service offerings require effective techniques for the rapid integration of service and management systems over multiple organisational domains...

The CLEF-IP track was launched in 2009 to investigate IR techniques for patent retrieval. It is part of the CLEF 2009 evaluation campaign. Also, in 2009 we built a system in order to participate in the CLEF-IP competition. Our system has three main components: filtering module, indexing module, and searching module. Because the process of indexing of all 75 G of input documents with patents too...

This paper describes the software system supporting the Carnegie Mellon/Univ. of Pittsburgh team of simulated search and rescue robots in the Robocup Rescue 2010 Virtual Robots competition. Building on the Machinetta agent software, robot command and control is decomposed into a hierarchy of subtasks managed by independent agents both on the robot and colocated with human operators. By encapsul...

Health care in the United States has entered a period of economic upheaval. Episodic, fee-for-service care financed by indemnity insurance is being replaced by managed care financed by fixed-price, capitated health plans. The resulting focus on reducing costs, especially in areas where there is competition fueled by oversupply of health services providers and facilities, poses new threats to th...

Intensive competition has forced companies to focus on their core business and participate in more and more complex supply networks. The necessity to preserve the autonomy of each partner makes that such networks are usually managed in a decentralized way. Consequently, problems and conflicts emerge during the coordination processes. This paper describes some coordination problems identified th...

Introduction T he U.S. Congress created the Medicare+Choice (M+C) program in 1997 through the Balanced Budget Act (BBA) to broaden opportunities for elderly Americans to enroll in managed care.The architects of the program hoped that expanded plan choice would increase efficiency and lower costs by sparking competition among plans. Currently, about 5.6 million people, or 14 percent of the natio...

Australia’s publicly owned and managed National Parks estate has been largely quarantined from the micro-economic reforms that have been instituted across most other sectors of the economy. The public good, natural monopoly and equity arguments that are used to justify a continued dominance by the public sector in the production and provision of Park benefits are not watertight. Opening up the ...

This paper examines "internal competition"-duplicate or overlapping activities within the boundaries of the firm that are condoned by senior management as a means of addressing a technological or market uncertainty. Building on redundancy theory, we argue that internal competition is a form of redundancy that allows the organization to adapt in the face of environmental change. We identify two ...

The operations of a corporate group managed by parent and guided shared strategy interests the may in some cases cause damage to subsidiary’s creditors. This study will particular focus on liability towards creditors for anti-monopoly damages caused breach competition laws not resulting from binding orders company its subsidiary. It is especially important establish if possibly how parent’s ari...